内容正文:
The 1940s house (deep reading)
授课老师:
课时学习目标:
深度阅读文本,从“住宅、个人安全、食物、日常家务、家庭生活”五个方面比较并解释20世纪40年代的生活与现代生活的差异;
深入理解作者的写作意图及亲情的重要性。
How do you usually spend time with your family?
Many families want to apply for this TV reality show. People in the 21st century get bored with the simple modern life without a lot of labour-challenging daily routine. They want to challenge themselves with the hardship during the wartime, and experience a different life, which may provoke their reflection upon their present life or bring some changes to their family life.
2. What is the writing purpose of the reading passage?
The writer wants to tell us that we may have different lifestyles in different times. Life today is totally different from that in the 1940s, but modern technology is no guarantee of a happy family life. Just like what is written the reading passage “life in the 1940s wasn't easy, but an easier and more comfortable life doesn't necessarily mean a better life.” Harmonious family relationship is the most important thing whatever times we live in.
Deep reading
Compare life in different times and complete the table.
Lyn’s time-travel experiment
In the 1940s In morden times
Housing
Personal safety
Food
Daily routine
Family life
In the 1940s
Lyn lived in a three-bedroomed house in south London with her family. It was poorly equipped. There were no labour-saving devices, no central heating or fridge. But luckily, there was a coal fire.
Deep reading
Housing
In modern times
She lives in a modern, open-plan house. The house probably has rooms with different functions, such as a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, a bathroom and bedrooms. There may also be a central heating system in the modern house and many labour-saving devices, such as a washing machine and a microwave.
Do you like coal fire or central heating? Why?
In the 1940s
Personal safety was a great problem in the 1940s because of wartime dangers. Lyn’s family had to dig a hole in their garden and